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Free mp3 hosting for SSML Audio Tags?

Is there a place that will host mp3 audio files for free that will work for Alexa's SSML Audio Tags? For testing I have tried taking a known good audio file (hope you don't mind @jjaquinta) that works on a know good host (s3) and tried hosting on Drop Box and Google docs... neither worked. Any other ideas? Can I include it in my source files? know good: two tries: //results in: "Error: Invalid audio content in URL" //results in: "Error: There was a problem when trying to retrieve the audio"
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Jon answered
S3 does have a free tier at least for some time. As part of the AWS Free Usage Tier, you can get started with Amazon S3 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, 2,000 Put Requests, and 15GB of data transfer out each month for one year.
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jjaquinta answered
Not a problem. There are a bunch of other free TsaTsaTzu sounds here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tsatsatzu-alexa/index.htm I've only tried hosting on S3. So I'm afraid I don't have any other suggestions.
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Based on going to the mp3 files that you have specified that do not work, it appears that neither is a direct link to the mp3 file. Both go to pages which have an embedded mp3 player. If you could find a way to get direct links to the actual file from those services I think you'd have a much better chance of it working. -Nick
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Maxime-Dubois answered

Hello.
I'm facing the same problem: I cannot find a way to get a direct link to my mp3 file on Google Drive...
I know I could use S3 for a moment since I created my AWS account one month ago. But I don't want to rely on a solution that is free only for a while, because I want my skill to last more than one year.
Any idea?

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